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Toxic chemicals as weapons for law enforcement: a threat to life and international law?

… the prohibition. Countries agreed the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which banned the use of … of toxic chemicals as weapons under the 1925 Geneva Protocol, the 1993 Chemical Weapons … International Committee of the Red Cross Geneva, September 2012∗ Prohibition This …

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Strengthening compliance with IHL: Initial informal Meeting of States, July 2012

… with International Humanitarian Law, Geneva, 13 July 2012 Concluding remarks … Humanitarian Law Friday, 13 July 2012, Geneva, Switzerland Guidance Document … the Conference on the “60 Years of the Geneva Conventions and the Decades Ahead”, States …

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Contemporary challenges to IHL – Occupation: overview

… in The Hague Regulations of 1907, the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 and Additional …

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How does law protect in war?

… each topic, references to articles from the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols and … Humanitarian Law, an Introduction, Geneva, Henry-Dunant Institute, 1993, 92 pp. …

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National committees

… States to fulfil their obligations under the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional … 2005 as well as other IHL instruments. The Geneva Conventions do not require the creation …

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Strengthening compliance with IHL: Meeting with a group of States, April 2013

… features 8–9 April 2013 Background document Geneva, March 2013 THE PURPOSE OF THIS … which will take place on 17/18 June 2013 in Geneva. The 8/9 April 2013 discussions will … Periodic Review (UPR); UN Human Rights Conventions2; Monitoring and Reporting …

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Falklands / Malvinas: The ICRC’s role, 30 years on

… on each person, in compliance with the Third Geneva Convention, and provided copies to the … to the Argentine government. Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions, all parties to a conflict – in …

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Development of national legislation to implement the Convention on the prohibition of anti-personnel mines – Information kit

… received since 2005 (United Nations Office at Geneva) 1 1 …

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Weapons

… (in 1899). In 1925, governments adopted the Geneva Protocol, which outlaws the use of … Hague Regulations (1907) Chemical weapons Geneva Protocol (1925) Convention on the … of chemical weapons (1993) Biological weapons Geneva Protocol (1925) Convention on the …

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Review of new weapons

… law. In addition, there are a number of conventions that regulate or prohibit the use … 36 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 requires each State … Cross and Red Crescent, States party to the Geneva Conventions declared that "in light of …

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